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Follies of the Madmen #320
Sexy Owl Lady is recruiting cigar smokers.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 12, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #319
We've all heard of talking with your hands...
From Radio Mirror magazine, December 1937.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 02, 2017 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Surrealism, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #318
I don't get it. Is "nimble as an ox" good or bad, the before or after status of fueling up with their gas?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 20, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, 1950s, Cars
The Many Lives of the Borden’s Cows
Would today's media consumers accept bobbing paper cutouts in place of CGI?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 04, 2017 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #317
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 03, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #316
I always take my sleep advice from Big Steel.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 01, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Dreams and Nightmares, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #315
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 21, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1930s, Nudism, Cars
Win A Houseboy Contest
In my physical copy of LIFE magazine for December 20, 1963, this ad occupies page 89.In the scanned copy at Google, there is an entirely different ad on page 89. The image you see here is my scan of the paper copy.
I have no explanation for this. Did LIFE print regional issues with different ads?
In any case, I could find no other complete representation of this ad online. (There's a scan of the top part alone, for some reason.)
Thus does WU contribute to the world's stock of knowledge.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 18, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Ethnic Groupings, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #314
I'm just glad this was not an ad for TOILET paper.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 14, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1930s
Middle Finger Candle
You could have one of these burning in your front window to let neighbors/salesmen/people-trying-to-convert-you know how you feel about them.
Available from the Cool Material Shop.
via SylK's Playground
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 10, 2017 -
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Category: Products
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